According to Dazhong Daily, with the approval of the State Council, the 3rd Qingdao Multinationals Summit co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and Shandong Province will be held in Qingdao from June 20th to 21st 2022, and the opening ceremony will be held on the evening of June 19th.

According to reports, this summit will be mainly offline conferences and will be a combination of offline and online activities. There will be about 800 offline guests and no upper limit on the number of online guests. The guests of the summit are mainly leaders of multinational companies, including: Fortune 500 company leaders of the world, Asia-Pacific or Greater China region, global leaders of industry leading companies. Special guests include: leaders of national ministries and commissions, representatives of international organizations, representatives of foreign governments, representatives of embassies and consulates in China, heads of business associations, well-known experts and scholars, and representatives of Henan Province which is the province of the guest of honor.

Judging from the theme and agenda setting of the conference, they are all about current hot issues. The theme of the 3rd Qingdao Multinationals Summit is "MNCs and China". China has always made it clear to the outside world that it will unswervingly expand its opening-up, and continue to build a large market of the world and a hot ground for foreign investment, including promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and maintaining the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain and supply chain.

In addition, this summit will mainly arrange 41 activities in 14 categories, including the opening ceremony, closed-door meeting, sub-forum, summit dialogue, theme salon, promotion of multinational companies, promotion of province of the guest of honor, city promotion, project signing ceremony, activities of organizing committee, economic consultant conference of Shandong government, supporting exhibitions, etc. Among them, the province of the guest of honor of this conference is Henan. Cities of Qingdao, Jinan, Yantai, Weihai, Zibo, Heze, Binzhou and other cities will participate in the promotion.

It is known that the second Qingdao Multinationals Summit was successfully held in July last year, attracting leaders from 390 Fortune 500 companies and 517 global industry leaders to participate in the conference and jointly explore huge opportunities of a new round of high-level opening up to the outside world. A total of 96 foreign-funded projects were signed, with a total investment of 11.85 billion US dollars, which strongly promoted the opening up of Shandong to the outside world.

Source: WeChat ID "Qingji" (青记)